Breaking cell barriers with retractable protein nanoneedles
Adapting a bacterial structure, researchers develop protein actuators that can mechanically puncture cells.
Feb 11th, 2016
Read moreAdapting a bacterial structure, researchers develop protein actuators that can mechanically puncture cells.
Feb 11th, 2016
Read moreThanks to an ingenious process, researchers grow nanowire lasers right on a silicon chip, making it possible to produce high-performance photonic components cost-effectively.
Feb 11th, 2016
Read moreSingle step process transforms carbon dioxide into star-shaped molecules that are promising building blocks for useful polymeric materials.
Feb 11th, 2016
Read moreMembers of a research collaboration have succeeded in experimentally verifying the properties of crystals of chiral magnetic materials, which may lead to the development of new types of magnetic memories with unprecedented storage capacities.
Feb 10th, 2016
Read morePrinciples of the conversion from heat currents to magnonic spin currents discovered / Study of complex magnetic materials.
Feb 10th, 2016
Read morePhysicists have shown how liquids on solid surfaces can be made to slide over the surface a bit like a bobsleigh on ice. The key is to apply a coating at the boundary between the liquid and the surface that induces the liquid to slip.
Feb 10th, 2016
Read moreIn a new study, researchers present a clever means of localizing and confining enzymes and the substrate molecules they bind with, speeding up reactions essential for life processes.
Feb 10th, 2016
Read moreResearchers improved performance of TFTs by designing a new transistor architecture that takes advantage of a bipolar action.
Feb 9th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have recently developed a design for a coiled-up acoustic metasurface which can achieve total acoustic absorption in very low-frequency ranges.
Feb 9th, 2016
Read moreIndications of light-induced lossless electricity transmission in fullerenes contribute to the search for superconducting materials for practical applications.
Feb 9th, 2016
Read moreScientists have recently found that the hard shells of diatoms have the highest specific strength - the strength at which a structure breaks with respect to its density - of any known biological material, including bone, antlers, and teeth.
Feb 9th, 2016
Read moreResearchers show that the key to obtaining diffraction data from non-crystalline but symmetric structures, such as helices, lies in matching the symmetry of the incoming radiation to the symmetry of the structure to be studied.
Feb 9th, 2016
Read moreScientists used NIPAM-based nanogels synthesised with different percentages of MBA (N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide) as a cross-linker in the range 10-30%, and characterised them at human physiological temperature. Detailed structural studies of these systems on a molecular length scale have not been attempted before now.
Feb 9th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have studied the interaction of two materials, halide perovskite and quantum dots, revealing enormous potential for the development of advanced LEDs and more efficient solar cells.
Feb 9th, 2016
Read moreAn approach to data storage which relies on the magnetic moment of electrons (i.e. the spin) rather than the charge, has recently turned into major research fields, called spintronics and magnonics.
Feb 9th, 2016
Read moreThe material is a type of shape-memory polymer, which can be programmed to retain a temporary shape until it is triggered - typically by heat - to return to its original shape.
Feb 9th, 2016
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